Since I started paying attention to the primaries Hillary Clinton went from being the frontrunner to being down and out and back to being the front runner again. All in the span of about a week. Pundits wrote her off after her dissapointing 3rd place finish in Iowa and early polls in New Hampshire showed a large Obama lead. And guess what happened? She won New Hampshire (close race) and is back to front runner status. This showed me that in America we like to make predictions even more than we like to watch the actual event. What was purported to be a huge comeback wasn't really a comeback at all. The same thing happened, although for a longer period of time for McCain. He was down and out last summer and was having trouble raising money. But now that both he and Hillary have won the primary in NH they are both swimming in money again, which is the most important thing that they could have gotten out of NH. So at this point I'm not going to make any predictions, I just like watching the races and I'm going to remember promises made by the candidates. I will also start reading up on each candidate in preparation for the California primary in February 5th. But between now and then I'm sure there will be lots of memorable moments along the campaign trail.
Posted by troutm8 at January 10, 2008 11:28 AM